Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on Aug. 26 as its latest speech-to-text model, claiming improved accuracy for structured strings like phone numbers and postal codes, filler removal, fo…
Only 15% of Americans trust AI companies to make decisions about the technology's development and use, according to an Anthropic + YouGov poll from Dec. 2025, and Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp i…
Jerry Tworek, former OpenAI VP and current CEO of Core Automation, estimates human researchers have at least two years left as a meaningful part of AI research discovery, citing the exhausting pace an…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is seeking a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November to propose joint international initiatives to address AI risks, including monitoring AI's abilit…
Speechify's SIMBA 3.2 text-to-speech model ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard and Voice Arena's real-time category, beating ElevenLabs, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind in blind listening …
Google is in advanced talks to license technology and hire staff from AI startup Mechanize in a deal valued at more than $1.5 billion, according to Business Insider. The agreement would expand Google'…
Bill Gates has reversed his stance on AI's impact on jobs, now warning that the technology will cause economic catastrophe with 'far fewer' jobs than exist today, citing the speed of advancements and …
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, said he wants to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November to propose global efforts to mitigate AI risks, including restricting potentially dangerous AI …
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) will present InnoAsia 2026, featuring technology firms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google DeepMind, Kling AI, and Alibaba Group, alongside a range of s…
Google introduced the Gemini 3.5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash models in mid-May 2026, designed for agentic AI applications with multimodal processing and a one million token input window. The Flash variant ta…
Former Google DeepMind researchers Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob launched Sampura Research, a London-based nonprofit, on August 25 to develop better AI evaluation systems, with $11M in initial funding fr…
OpenAI has reportedly completed a massive new pretraining run codenamed 'Bel' with over 10 trillion parameters, according to an unverified post on X by user @synthwavedd on August 25, 2026. If accurat…
Spending on Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model has plateaued at just 11% of enterprise AI spending among 70,000 US companies tracked by payments group Ramp, reflecting a shift toward cheaper alternati…
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4, Meta's Llama 3, and Mistral AI's Mistral each implement local tool calling with distinct architectural trade-offs, according to a Machine Learning Mastery comparison. Gemma …
Anthropic has signed the European Union's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content and is implementing machine-readable watermarking across all output from its Claude models worldwide,…
Google's Gemma family of open-weight models surpassed 1 billion cumulative downloads on August 20, with 600 million downloads in under five months since Gemma 4 launched in April 2026. The Gemmaverse …
Google DeepMind, with researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, published a paper (arXiv:2608.17981) introducing 'recirculation,' an inference-time technique that feeds deep-layer activation…
OpenAI's Tibo, who works on ChatGPT and Codex, described a future where the two products merge into a single voice-first, adaptive personal AGI tailored to each user, eliminating the need for separate…
Brendan O'Donoghue of Google DeepMind presented a talk titled 'Text Diffusion' in a video, detailing a diffusion-based approach for text generation. The presentation, hosted on YouTube, covers the met…
Boyd Kane, a technical AI safety researcher, is preparing a MATS Symposium Spotlight research project for submission to NeurIPS, which uses finetuning to estimate how likely an untrained LLM is to beh…